Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When a condition arises which causes you to lose your job you can call it a recession or a deflation or a panic. When you don't have anything to wear, anything to eat in the house, and you have some small mouths crying for a place to sleep and a place to eat, it doesn't make any difference what you call...
...tranquilizers and newer "psychic energizers" only the harbingers of a parade of drugs that will cure a wide variety of man's emotional disorders, increase and prolong his mental efficiency, perhaps decrease his need for sleep? This teaser from the psychochemist's dream world was presented last week by New York's Dr. Nathan S. Kline to a Chicago meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association. Eventually, said Dr. Kline, modifications of existing drugs, and others still to be discovered, should lead to progress in these areas...
EXCESSIVE SLEEPFULNESS. "There are individuals who are obsessed by sleep, devoting a disproportionate amount of time to it ... One can only speculate as to why sleep is necessary at all, since no one as yet has demonstrated a biochemical or physiological explanation." A side effect of psychic energizers is that most patients find that they need only four or five hours' sleep a night; some have gone this way for a year with no fatigue. Dr. Kline tried iproniazid himself, found he could do two days' work in one. A good question, he said, is "what the world...
...emotional side the trend is toward lessening parental tension. Instead of a rigid schedule, which prescribed the exact numbers of hours of sleep a youngster must have from year to year, there is now a permissive page simply to record how he sleeps. A stern "Development of Character" page, with the injunction, "Children must be taught emotional control," has been dropped entirely...
...year Yale offered only one religion course to its undergraduates, and only three students bothered to enroll. Lovett no sooner took over the course than its fame began to spread. He allowed his students to smoke and sip Cokes in class, insisted on only one rule: "If you must sleep, do it in a dignified position." But in spite of such informality, "Cokes and Smokes" proved to hundreds of students that the study of religion could be a rigorous and fascinating intellectual discipline...